Luther wrote: >but it is the third that I think you are referring to here: a claim of the non-existence of something. I cannot seem to find a term for that in our lexicon or any other I have looked at. Luther, it seems to me that what we have here is an assertion that directly addresses an issue—be it rightly or wrongly. As such, it would be direct evidence for that issue, no? Elizabeth From: TSC-public [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luther Tychonievich Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 10:57 AM To: Justin York Cc: tsc-public Subject: Re: [TSC-public] Never Married It is important to distinguish between negative claims, negative search, and negative evidence Two of these are in the lexicon-EG's current lexicon: * http://fhiso.org/lexeg/lexicon-snapshot/#negative%20evidence.md * http://fhiso.org/lexeg/lexicon-snapshot/#negative%20search.md … but it is the third that I think you are referring to here: a claim of the non-existence of something. I cannot seem to find a term for that in our lexicon or any other I have looked at. An indirect definition can be found in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophic_burden_of_proof#Proving_a_negative and I tried to define it in the "Negative" entry of http://fhiso.org/files/cfp/cfps74.pdf I have encountered many sources that claim someone did not do something, including "single-never married" or "spinster" or "bachelor" status on documents, as well as claims such as "childless", "never visited another country", "never served in the military", and even "was not counted in the census" in journals, letters, obituaries, and the like. I would like to be able to represent all of these negative claims as data, and preferably all in a similar way. Can the _STAT solution (or the like) from GEDCOM L handle these other kinds of negative claims? ​